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turningverbpresent participle of turn to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axisturned the doorknob as quietly as possible pivoting, revolving, rolling, rotating, spinning, swinging, swirling, swiveling(or swivelling), twirling, twisting, wheeling, whirling screwing, unscrewingtwiddlingcoiling, cranking, reeling, windingcirculating to change the course or direction of (something)the dog turned the stampeding flock of sheep around he turned his cart uphill deflecting, diverting, redirecting, swinging, veering, wheeling, whipping averting, deviating, moving, rechanneling, shifting, shunting, sidetracking, swerving, switching, transferringswiveling(or swivelling), twisting, whirling, zigzaggingbending, curving, swayingreversing, turning back to change one's course or directionwe turned left at the light the storm unexpectedly turned south and missed our area detouring, deviating, diverging, sheering, swerving, swinging, turning off, veering, wheeling tacking, zigzaggingdoubling (back), turning back to eventually have as a state or qualitywill turn 12 in six months becoming, coming, getting, going, growing, running, waxing altering, changing, metamorphosing, modifying, mutating, transfiguring, transforming, transmuting abiding, being, continuing, lingering, remaining, staying to move in circles around an axis or centerthe wheels turned, but the car was hopelessly stuck and wasn't moving gyrating, pinwheeling, pirouetting, revolving, rolling, rotating, spinning, twirling, wheeling, whirling coiling, curling, curving, rounding, spiraling(or spiralling), swirling, twining, twisting, windingcircling, circulating, encircling, orbiting, ringingpivoting, swiveling(or swivelling) to give serious and careful thought toturned the question every which way but could find no answer chewing over, cogitating, considering, contemplating, debating, deliberating, entertaining, eyeing(or eying), kicking around, meditating, mulling (over), perpending, pondering, poring (over), questioning, revolving, ruminating, studying, thinking (about or over), weighing, wrestling (with) musing (upon), reflecting (on or upon), reminiscinganalyzing, exploring, reviewingconcluding, reasoningsecond-guessing, speculating (about)brooding (about or over), dwelling (on or upon), fixating (on or upon), fretting (about or over), obsessing (about or over)believing, conceiving, opiningabsorbing, assimilating, digesting, drinking (in) beating one's brains out (about), chewing on, cudgeling one's brains (about), looking at disregarding, ignoring, overlooking, slightingdismissing, pooh-poohing(also poohing), rejecting to be determined by, based on, or subject (to)what we do next turns on your answer to the following question depending, hanging, hinging, riding basing, establishing, founding, resting, stayinggrounding to be in a confused state as if from being twirled aroundall the new information made his head turn reeling, spinning, swimming, whirling swirling calming, collectingsettling, steadying to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledgehe did his best to turn his new friends against his ex-wife biasing(or biassing), poisoning, prejudicing disposing, inclining, predisposinginfluencing, prepossessingconvincing, persuading, suggesting in the 14th century |